Etude on Comparative Source Studies: Example of Medieval English Manor

The paper offers a number of problems connected with specificity and comparative characteristics of manorial records — surveys and court rolls of medieval England. Manorial surveys as a basic type of records include various data concerning lands, tenements, and rents of English peasants, entry fines, heriots, enclosures, different social types of peasantry, etc. A number of them have been thoroughly researched by Russian historians, while manorial court rolls haven’t been yet researched enough. Manorial court rolls if compared with manorial surveys, are sources of another type. They represent everyday life of English medieval peasantry, including its legal aspects as well as crucial role of manorial custom in the relations between peasants and manorial lords; order of manorial courts’ work and their types; crimes and punishments in the manors; borrowings from the system of Common law (e.g. the Jury), etc. Manorial court rolls have been substantially researched in England and in the USA by both historians and legal scholars. This article also deals with the problem of interpretation of numeric and legal “languages” of manorial records.

Keywords

England, Middle Ages, source studies, comparative studies, manor, manorial surveys, manorial court rolls

Acknowledgment

The article is prepared in the State Academic University for Humanities as a part of the theme № FZNF-2020-0001 supported by the Ministry of science and high school of the Russian Federation.

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27.05.2021

Publication date

27.12.2021

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GOST	Vinokurova M. Etude on Comparative Source Studies: Example of Medieval English Manor // ISTORIYA – 2021. – V. 12. – Issue 12 (110). Part 1 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://history.jes.su/S207987840018303-2-1 (circulation date: 23.07.2024). DOI: 10.18254/S207987840018303-2
MLA	Vinokurova, Marina "Etude on Comparative Source Studies: Example of Medieval English Manor." ISTORIYA 12.12-1 (110) (2021) DOI: 10.18254/S207987840018303-2
APA	Vinokurova M. (2021). Etude on Comparative Source Studies: Example of Medieval English Manor. ISTORIYA 12(12-1 (110)) DOI: 10.18254/S207987840018303-2

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